Curly Braces

" Braces ^[1]".

"Braces" -- to me, "brackets" refers to [ and ].

"Curly brackets"

squigglies

* round brackets, open brackets, or parentheses:  ( )
* square brackets, closed brackets, or box brackets:  [ ]
* curly brackets or braces:  { }
* angle brackets, diamond brackets, cone brackets, or chevrons:  < > or ⟨ ⟩

ref:

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

In Denmark we often call them "Tuborg parenthesis" refering to the shape of the red and white sunshade ^[1] used by the Danish beer brand Tuborg. There is more information on Wikipedia in Danish ^[2] and in English ^[3].

I don't know, so I try to avoid calling them anything. I write or type them when possible.

I name them as follows:

• (brackets)
• {curly brackets} or sometimes {braces} or even {curly braces}
• [square brackets]

US English seems to have:

• (parentheses)
• [brackets]
• {braces}

In my books (I am from Canada) these are:

() = Parentheses
[] = Brackets
{} = Braces

Until recently when I was typing on a european keyboard I thought these were standard symbols and everyone called them the same, but now I realize different cultures call them different things, and some keyboards don't even have these on them!

{} - chaves [] - colchetes () - parênteses

in Portuguese, of course.

Curly braces. [ and ] are brackets or square brackets

I call them braces. On many SLR cameras they use this '[]' symbol for the bracketing feature and I've always known '[' and ']' as brackets myself.

Nothing, they're not available on Italian keyboards.

And yet Italian C-programmers exist. They use trigraphs.

I call those braces, and I call [ and ] brackets. I consider the terms curly braces and square brackets redundant, but sometimes the redundancy helps avoid confusion, in part because brace and bracket are similar words, easily confused, and in part because some people use braces or brackets to mean parentheses.

In Portuguese, "chaves"

In French, "accolades".

"Brackets"

Most of what I've seen is a combination of either "curly" or "brace". So, it might be called a "curly" or "curly bracket" or "brace" or something like that. Personally, I call them "braces".

No-one's stated < >

Which I call "inequalities" (if used singularly) or "chevrons" (if used as parentheses).

To me {} are curly braces.

Begin problem code and End problem code (respectively).